I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage

The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible